San Francisco Mountains, IVA iron meteorite. Image ⓒ ASU/CMS. […]
Iron Meteorite Dedicated to Class of 2020!
To welcome this year’s incoming ASU freshmen, the Center for Meteorite Studies has partnered with the School of Earth and Space Exploration to dedicate a meteorite to the Class of 2020. The Class of 2020's meteorite is actually a collection of spheres cut from the Gibeon iron meteorite. Gibeon was found in Namibia, in 1836, […]
Nuevo Mercurio
Nuevo Mercurio is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the evening of December 15, 1978, in Zacatecas, Mexico. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 57): "A bright fireball, traveling NE. to SW. and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north-central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than […]
2016 Nininger Award Application Open!
The Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University is pleased to announce the application opportunity for the 2016 Nininger Meteorite Award for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing research in meteoritical sciences! The Nininger Meteorite Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in the meteoritical sciences as embodied by an original research paper. Papers must cover […]
Greetings from the Sonoran Desert!
Members of the Center for Meteorite Studies recently participated in their own meteorite hunt! The expedition was part of an experiment to quantify the chemical and isotopic effects of terrestrial weathering on a Martian meteorite. In particular, Center Post Doctoral Research Associate Alice Stephant will measure the hydrogen isotopic content of certain minerals (olivine, maskelynite, […]
